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MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA<br />
M.M.NINAN<br />
The Big Bang marks the instant at which the universe began, when space and time<br />
came into existence and all the matter in the cosmos started to expand. Amazingly,<br />
theorists have extrapolated the history of the universe to 10 -43 second (10 million trillion<br />
trillion trillionths of a second) after the Big Bang without being able to predict the<br />
movement of each particle fomed. Before this time all four fundamental forces—gravity,<br />
electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces—were unified, but physicists<br />
have yet to develop a workable theory that can describe these conditions.<br />
During the first second or so of the universe, protons, neutrons, and electrons—the<br />
building blocks of atoms—formed when photons collided and converted their energy<br />
into mass, and the four forces split into their separate identities. The temperature of the<br />
universe also cooled during this time, from about 10 32 (100 million trillion trillion)<br />
degrees to 10 billion degrees. Approximately three minutes after the Big Bang, when the<br />
temperature fell to a cool one billion degrees, protons and neutrons combined to form<br />
the nuclei of a few heavier elements, most notably helium.<br />
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